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#Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes #Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
#ai #artificialintelligence
From John Scalzi:
"... Which is to say, if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire who sprints to reprogram that LLM every time it shares a fact that makes that billionaire angry or sad, or doesn’t fit into his Playskool Machiavellian ambitions and plans. In this particular case, a thousand pedantic nerds is much better than a single rich one ..."
#wikipedia #grokipedia
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/
From John Scalzi:
"... Which is to say, if you have to choose a “pedia” to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying “well, ACTUALLY” to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire who sprints to reprogram that LLM every time it shares a fact that makes that billionaire angry or sad, or doesn’t fit into his Playskool Machiavellian ambitions and plans. In this particular case, a thousand pedantic nerds is much better than a single rich one ..."
#wikipedia #grokipedia
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/30/a-review-of-grokipedia-using-myself-as-test-subject/
I tried #Grokipedia and now I'm naked and hungry and lost in the wilderness and afraid. Please won't anyone help me.
I tried #Grokipedia. Just once. I looked up #Scarfolk. Grok took a kernel of truth - a real news report about Scarfolk - but completely invented all the details including a poster, graphic, and title/slogan that don't exist. Grok then repeats the story further down but with contradictory details.
Ich haette lieber 2h mit Domestos gurgeln sollen, als mir die #Grokipedia des Elon #Musk zu geben.
Gefunden habe dreiste Copy and Paste-Nummern von #Wikipedia Artikeln, Hitler-Verharmlosungen & ein Archiv welches zeigt, wie schamlos die AI-Crawler sich bedienen.
Ein Fiebertraum, wie er nicht anders zu erwarten war. Was eine bekloppte Welt.
Gerne teilen. Danke fuer euren Support 🙏
I tried #Grokipedia. Just once. I looked up #Scarfolk. Grok took a kernel of truth - a real news report about Scarfolk - but completely invented all the details including a poster, graphic, and title/slogan that don't exist. Grok then repeats the story further down but with contradictory details.
#grokipedia wäre Stalins Traum gewesen. Putins auch. Der Totalfake der Welt.
OK, I'm a masochist so I took a look at the #Grokipedia article about Klezmer (as I mostly wrote the Wikipedia one I was curious about reports of plagiarism).
It's not closely plagiarized from Wikipedia as far as I can tell, although it borrowed some of the structure of "my" article. For the rest it was put through a blender and cites random websites it could find without much careful attention. Meaning that there is some correct info and also plenty of the nonsense that circulates online. 🧐
OK, I'm a masochist so I took a look at the #Grokipedia article about Klezmer (as I mostly wrote the Wikipedia one I was curious about reports of plagiarism).
It's not closely plagiarized from Wikipedia as far as I can tell, although it borrowed some of the structure of "my" article. For the rest it was put through a blender and cites random websites it could find without much careful attention. Meaning that there is some correct info and also plenty of the nonsense that circulates online. 🧐
fixed that for you
@molly0xfff He does understand that by taking Wikipedia text under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence he's required to make all future versions of his text available under the same licence, right? Right?
#Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes #Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human
#ai #artificialintelligence
Grokipedia and the Coup Against Reality Itself
https://www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-and-the-coup-against-reality-itself/
#HackerNews #Grokipedia #Coup #Reality #Dissident #News #Article
Musk can't even get a bunch of people to volunteer on a project together, he has to go with shitty autocomplete to regurgitate stuff for him.
How desperately sad.
Ça alors... quelle surprise 🙃!
#Wikipedia #Grokipedia
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grokipedia
adding spurs of reality:
#grokipedia
Don't get me wrong, #Wikipedia isn't perfect. But in 2025, a totally independent platform edited by users with no adds, and totally free to use is amazing
Which is exactly why #Musk and others hate it.
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